In other immigration news, immigrant advocacy groups and farmers, as well as some religious groups, are teaming up in Washington state against the use of a program to check immigrants' eligibility to work in the U.S. Before we adopt such a program, they say, we need comprehensive immigration reform.

In a somewhat related story, after being given the choice of complying with state law that would require allowing same-sex couples to adopt or getting out of the adoption business, Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois is now officially Christian Social Services of Illinois. The difference, of course, is that they are no longer affiliated with the Catholic Church and thus able to continue their adoption services, regardless of the parents' sexual orientation.